The Category 4 winds ripped leaves and bark from trees, and flattened most of the island's farmland.

Other crops drowned in flood water, which have decimated entire plantations.

A field of plantains is flooded one day after the impact of Hurricane Maria in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017.AP

Plantain, banana, and coffee crops were hit the hardest.

A plantain field stands under water after the passing of Hurricane Maria in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, Thursday, September 21, 2017.AP

The storm also destroyed dairy barns and industrial chicken coops.

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A number of grazing horses were killed after landslides careened down mountains.

Dead horses on the side of the road after the passing of Hurricane Maria, in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Sept. 22, 2017.AP

On some farms, chickens drowned in the flood water.

Dead poultry are seen in a farm, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017.AP

Unlike in the continental US, where industrial-sized farms are normal, many of Puerto Rico’s farms are smaller, family-owned operations. Below, one farmer looks at his family's farm after Maria, which destroyed a greenhouse, shed, and a large number of crops:

A boulder now blocks the adjoining road.

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The destruction from Maria will have grave consequences for Puerto Rico's food supply and agricultural industry. Although the island imports the majority of the food it consumes, its farming industry has been undergoing a renaissance and growing 3% to 5% every year since 2011.

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Local staples, like sugar cane, tobacco, citrus fruits, and plantains, are now largely gone.

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“Sometimes when there are shortages, the price of plantain goes up from $1 to $1.25. This time, there won’t be any price increase; there won’t be any product,” José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, told The Times.

It could take at least a year to get farms back up and running, Rivera said. The soil will need to recover, and farmers will need to replant trees and crops.

A municipal government worker clears a road after the passing of Hurricane Maria, in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, Thursday, September 21, 2017.AP

The recovery will be long. But Flores, Puerto Rico's agriculture secretary, told The Times there could be an opportunity to make the rebuilt farms more sustainable and efficient.

A damaged farm is seen after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Salinas, Puerto Rico September 21, 2017.Reuters